NO (& satellite image is old on Baidu, facility doesn't exist at time of sat image)

The house expropriation notice below says (Google translate only): "within the scope of the construction project of the Education and Transformation School of Kashgar..Construction project of education transformation school"

Multiple Facilities, with detention wings to the North-West of the Camp. Additional Construction underway in the South-East. Appears to be 12 large buildings for re-education, 6 detention wings

NO (also not sat image)

"Construction site of this bidding project: 13 Village, Baren Township, Shule County.. bidding for the construction of the project construction project of the legal education conversion school in Shule County of Kashgar District"

The below hasn't been geo-located to one facility but noting that we came across a lot of advertisements such as the below for the recruitment of Mandarin teachers to 'comprehensively promote the development of the national language education in Shule County'

North compound is re-education, large complex to the South is detention, to the West of the road is medium-security

NO (also not sat image)

Having trouble getting to the website (security has blocked it) but this could be something https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&prev=search&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=zh-CN&sp=nmt4&u=http://szjcjz1.com/229131/sdnww20170815203809849400.html&xid=17259,15700022,15700124,15700149,15700186,15700190,15700201&usg=ALkJrhgl8tGzRZpBWUogBEzF2RRlwYmzPQ

Also worth noting: " The enrollment rate of elementary school, junior high school and high school in Hotan area has been greatly improved, reaching 99.5%, 97.5% and 63.9% respectively. Last year, there was an interesting phenomenon in the Hotan area. More than 30,000 children who had reported lying or missing in the past were "resurrected"

More here: https://web.archive.org/web/20180520215314/http://www.sohu.com/a/132218059_708267; Also: https://twitter.com/uyghur_nur/status/1032558865639002112 (but malware has been put on this link so don't click through);

Very new, construction began in 2017_Q3 and now there are 21 buildings & it's large. There are lots of tenders & they contain alot of detail of individual buildings. One tender includes a request for an 'armed police room'

教育转化中心 - education transformation center

YES. Possible still under construction

12400

120700

973.39%

0

21

YES

YES

YES

Cosiderable construction underway, with new detention wings being constructed in the South-West. There also appears to be greenhouses as part of the camp, likely for detainee labour. Lacking recent High-Resolution imagery so hard to quantifiy the scale of construction.

NO (also not sat image)

1: The first document on this official govt website states "The annual public security expenditure was 45.92 million yuan, 73 new convenience police stations, 4 large-scale public security checkpoints, 1 new vocational skills education and training center, and 1 detention center. The maintenance and transformation of 5 vocational skills training and training sites was strengthened"; 2: "The construction of a four-story ground floor, frame structure, training area of ​​45,167 square meters and supporting ancillary facilities"

Multiple construction phases. Construction of a 2,074sqm building for armed police forces, a 2,771sqm dining hall, generator room etc. Construction involves two 5-floor buildings with 17,820sqm. Later expanded to include 8 buildings.

"Tender scope: The total area of ​​11292 square meters of training center construction, frame structure, the above-ground four floors and related supporting facilities of the project quantity list and construction work drawings."

Very good time lapsed satellite footage from 2016-18. In mid 2016 there was one small facility. By mid-2017 it went from this small facility to 18, and now 32 buildings. The detention part of the facility is distinct to the original pre-2017 facility. It is barricaded, no grass, watchtowners, has outdoor pens for detainees.

In the past, at least in 2013 the center seemed to have a legitimate training function, training farmers to help their increase their income function http://www.xjfzb.com/contents/219/7521.html

23

References & hyperlinks:

1. http://www.xjjsx.gov.cn/Item/14260.aspx (note: having problems accessing site on review of research); 2. http://web.archive.org/web/20180911022413/http://m.bidchance.com/minfo-gonggao-21357637.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20180617184622/http://www.bidcenter.com.cn/newscontent-36302642-1.html AND https://web.archive.org/web/20180618064120/http://www.bidcenter.com.cn/newscontent-38284308-1.html

Residential Housing until mid-2017. Between July 13th and 26th 2018, it appears the outdoor yards for inmates were covered with tarps.

NO (阳光锦苑小区 is very close though) (no sat image)

1. A tender for teaching & security equipment: "Hardly isolate and install monitoring facilities, education and teaching equipment and other related supporting facilities for Sunshine Jinyuan located on Qijiang Road"; 2. "We will carry out hard isolation and reconstruction of the People's Hospital* Building of Shengli North Road* and install other monitoring facilities such as monitoring facilities, education and teaching equipment" (this also seems to list medical equipment below this summary)

Uses new term which is pretty strong. 墨集中教育矫治中心 Moyu County (Karakax County) Concentration Educational Correction Center

12900

20200

156.59%

6

9

YES

NO

YES

YES (Looks like 墨玉县职业技术高中学校党支部 - Moyu County Vocational and Technical High School Party Branch)

1. Official doc: On April 9, Yan Guocan, secretary of the local party committee, investigated the work of “de-extremization”..On the morning of the same day, Yan Guocan went to the Moyu County Centralized Education Correction Center, the Fifth Middle School, the Yinger Township Central Primary School, the Yima Eskel Village and the Yingyier Village, and the training and training staff of the Central Education Center. The village cadres and residents of the village working group talked and conducted in-depth and meticulous investigations on the “de-extremization” and the weakening of the grassroots organizations..Since the start of the March 9th in the Moyu County Centralized Education Correctional Center, 64 trainees have received training and education. By focusing on the party's ethnic and religious policies, national laws and regulations, and carrying out various cultural and sports activities, the students' ideological understanding has been greatly improved, and the educational effect is obvious. Yan Guocan requested that teachers and trainees be organized to appear in townships and towns, to carry out training and publicity, and to further expand coverage and education groups."; 2: Moyu County Education Correction Center construction and expansion project construction

Satellite, very detailed tender (that includes the address), good photos on Twitter

The tender lists that the facility housed 8460 in 2018 March

The name seems to be the main description? (阿图什市职业技能教育培训服务中心)

ABC

YES.

34900

148300

424.93%

11

54

YES

YES

YES

LARGE expansion (~80,000m2) to the South of the road. Built in May.

NO (also no sat image)

"The total construction area is 95,674.86m2 , of which the student's room area is 7,6358.7m2, the management room area is 1,0823.7m2, the armed police room area is 8492.53m2, the green area is 43630m2 , the wall is 1295m, and the supporting medical room area is 1254.93m2" https://web.archive.org/web/20180706221430/http://www.xjats.gov.cn/P/C/1736.htm

Small but interesting imagery. At the end of 2017 it's a watered green oval/running track. Sometime in early 2018 six large buildings were built that cover almost the entire track (except the edges)

伊宁县职业技能教育培训中心及稳安防设

BBC

Very interesting imagery; YES

20150

32450

161.04%

6

12

YES

NO

YES

MAYBE? Looks like it overlaps with, or is at least very close to 弓月新城住宅小区

The below document appears to be Yinan Country Propaganda Minister talking about Yining Country and a 4-month labor training program that apparently 4,000 people signed up for. Skills training focused on "de-extremization" publicty and education and it proivded a living allowance of 15 yuan a day. Training included classes on marriage law, family planning law, the hsitory of Xinjiang, AIDS prevention. Activities included playing red movies, singing red cong competions, bilingual competitions, sports comepetions, learing red songs etc to "enhance the awareness of antioanl unity among the students." This document also appears to be cited in a BBC Chinese article (but they don't link to it or name it specifically)

Not linked specifically to this camp but the below 2015 document says "Since the launch of the “Depolarization” campaign, Yining County has adhered to the people’s mobilization and comprehensive policy, and through the large-scale publicity, training, transformation, and rectification, it has built a “de-extreme” pattern in the whole society and effectively resisted national separatism. And the infiltration of religious extreme thoughts has laid a solid mass foundation and ideological foundation for social stability and long-term stability..Since 2010, Yining County has trained a total of 27,500 people in five years, making winter leisure busy in winter, which has reduced the space for religious extreme ideas to penetrate."

Very good satellite footage - new huge construction in the last year; media articles about the tender bid & details about one company that won a substantial bid for the 'intelligent informatization' 'Hengfeng Information' is a 'smart city provider'

Largest Camp at 541700 square metres. Appears to be the main camp for Urumqi. Construction began in May 2017 and we have excellent timelapse footage

BBC

Largest facility in this database; YES.

130900

526500

402.22%

0

67

YES

YES

NO

NO. Nearby Businesses only

1. Media article on the company that won a major tender (google translate): Hengfeng Information announced on the afternoon of November 20th. Recently, the company received the notice of winning the bid from the Dabancheng Construction Bureau of Urumqi. The company is Urumqi Vocational Skill Education. The training center project (intelligent informationization) construction winning bidder, the winning bid amount is 72.93 million yuan..The company said that after the project won the bid, the contract performance will have a positive impact on the company's 2018 business performance. 2. Company annoucement: "The total amount of the winning bidding project is ¥72,930,518.06, accounting for 22.08% of the company's total operating revenue for 2016"; 3. Henfeng describes the project; 3. Further confirmation of the same Hengfeng announcement 4. A different tender for a survey(?), most information ommitted

This article in Australia business insider covers this camp based on Shawn's blog https://www.businessinsider.com.au/photos-satellite-images-china-xinjiang-reeducation-detention-centers-2018-6?r=US&IR=T

1. Mentioned in WSJ report; 2. Tender: Name of the bidding project: Toksun County Vocational Skills Education and Training Center (skills improvement class) and the second training center to renovate supporting materials procurement. 3: Official doc: Senior official linked to the center arrested for financial corruption;

There is a school operating next door to the re-education facility. What appears to be a detention centre is a re-purposed school and the satellite imagery is compelling (you have a green oval next to a deteriorated oval, dormitories have been build up on the facility etc)

145000

195400

134.76%

0

39

YES

NO

YES

Have yet to build a parking-lot, cars are currently piled up on the road to N. This may indicate that further-growth is planned. Considerble room to expand

We have found this tender but this is just a re-publish of the tender Shawn Zhang found to the right

"Kashi City Vocational Skills Training Center Monitoring Project (Dongcheng District 4, 5, 6 Middle School Renovation and Central Brake New Construction)..Supervise the whole process of installing the camera and supporting equipment for the new National Education School of the Central Brab." http://202.100.177.112:81/ggzy/zbgs/18680.jhtml

It looks possible that half of the 疏勒县中等职业技术学校 Shule Secondary Vocational School has been put aside for 're-education' but we don't think we have enough evidence yet to prove that

Photos in a news article, satellite imagery - we are pretty convinced by this but are being cautious

There seems to be a 3-month 'militarized training component at this location. There are great photos which show large groups of people marching in rectangle formations which shows approx 6 such groups of people in the same rectangle formation

疏勒县中等职业技术学校

NO

29900

29900

100%

6

6

YES

NO

YES

Former school campus, only 4 most-SE buildings are part of the camp. Plus the two demountable blue-buildings. This is POSSIBLY temporary housing until a dedicated facility gets built.

This article (google translate) says: "On January 3, more than 1,000 trainees of the Shule County Secondary Vocational Technical School were undergoing militarized training, which officially kicked off the winter youth education and training activities in Shule County. The training lasts for three months. It mainly adopts two methods of centralized training in county towns and decentralized training in towns and villages. Among them, 1,000 people are trained in the closed military management of the county, and 1,500 people are trained in the form of walk-through training in each township." https://read01.com/G0aoDE.html#.W5dXC1UzZhG

1. This is interesting but still the school next door: "In order to further implement the spirit of the "de-extremization" work arrangement and the spirit of the speech of the superior leaders, on January 19, 2018, the school launched the students' extreme education activities during the winter vacation period of 2017-2018. This educational activity is organized by the class teacher to organize students in this class" 2. There are great photos galore of what looks to be the very legitimate school side of this facility - of the dorms, marching etc but they aren't useful for our purposes

This still doesn't prove it is detention or re-education:This winter youth education training in Shule County began on January 1 and ended on March 31. There are mainly three contents: militia training, public policy announcement, and skills training. At the same time, Chinese training is carried out throughout the whole process; training is concentrated in the county. Training and township decentralized training in two ways, centralized training in the county town of 1,000 people, the training location is located in the Shule County secondary vocational and technical school, the participants of the uniform accommodation and food, full closed military management; scattered training in the towns and villages 1,500 people, training The location is determined by each township and the training is attended by the participants. The purpose is to train the students' physique, tempering will, strengthen organizational discipline, change their ideological concepts, improve their ability to communicate in Chinese, and finally promote them to master the skills of getting rich as soon as possible, and realize the goal of living and working in peace and happiness and increasing income and prosperity. Become a new socialist farmer who maintains stability, discipline, and skills.

Potentially very good satellite imagery showing the fences being established in the school grounds. (DG_Catalogue - 104001003581DF00)

45400

45400

100%

8

8

NO

NO

YES

Former school building, began being used as a re-education camp in the end of 2017. Lack of watchtowers and barricading is due to the nature of the site

YES. 阿克陶县职业高中

1. Chinese Govt doc: "Due to special reasons (the campus was occupied by the sixth training center), our school carried out education and teaching work at ten teaching sites in the townships and villages of the agricultural area..the school was requisitioned by the Sixth Vocational Skills Education and Training Center"

We are pretty confident here but it would be useful to find one more bit of evidence to underpin this

Lots of photos in Shawn's blog, good satellite imagery (via terra) that shows growth and completion of the facility, news articles mentioning delegations visiting the site.

库尔勒职业技能教育培训中心 (the name)

103000

112000

108.74%

0

11

YES

NO

YES

To the South of a very large jail. Recent imagery from August 11 at 20180913-11-42-81-CL69.jpg

NO (also no sat image)

1. News articles about a visiting delegation: "On April 18th, Hu Yan, secretary of the Municipal Party Committee of Korla, Xinjiang, went to the Korla Vocational Skills Education and Training Center project research and guidance, Huang Xinping, deputy mayor of Korla City, Jin Shipeng, deputy mayor, Yuan Lifeng, director of the Bureau of Housing and Construction, chairman of the company, secretary of the party committee Cui Shengli and other accompanying"; 2. Tender but with no good detail

Via Shawn's blog he has photos and a screenshot (that now looks deleted about construction: "There are 8 dorm buildings, 1 admin building, 1 dining hall, 1 correction center. The construction started late Feb and is scheduled to finish in June"

Uses term 'legal transformation', good imagery, most camps surrounded by razor wire fences but no documents, media reports etc

YES. 疏附县法制转化学校

YES. Good imagery

46800

51730

110.53%

12

15

YES

NO

YES

We need more of anything (ideally tenders, news articles). Is the camp in use now? - Shawn talks about a brief mention of this facility & that's all we have beside imagery & the use of term 'transformation'

Really compelling photos (via Bitter Winter) that align with satellite imagery, brief mentions of the facility in a news article. Also referenced in a RFA article.

Fantastic photos published via Bitter Winter that we have matched with satellite imagery of the camp

11600

44450

383.19%

5

16

YES

DC - YES

YES

Right on the border of Kashgar and Kizilsu Prefectures.

NO (also no sat image)

1. Great photos of the inside of the inside yard of the facility that we have matched via satellite imagery; 2. People news article: "In Akto County, Liu Qi also inspected the construction of the county public security bureau's stability and stability integration platform and the vocational skills education and training of Chengbei Light Industry Park"; 3. Radio Free Asia article: " three education camps had been set up in Aktu County since March, with the largest camp lying between the border of Aktu and the city of Kashgar"

Construction underway to the S. Appears to be part of the camp, try to source more recent imagery to confirm

NO (also no sat image)

Shawn has a screenshot of a tender, we couldn't find it & it might have been taken offline. We found a trace here but (as usually happens) it redirects to an unrelated site) https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com.au/search?rlz%3D1C1GGRV_enAU772AU772%26ei%3DvvOZW5PjK9fU-Qb4m5e4Dw%26q%3D%2522%25E4%25BC%25BD%25E5%25B8%2588%25E5%258E%25BF%25E5%25B7%25A5%25E4%25B8%259A%25E5%259B%25AD%25E5%258C%25BA%2522%2B%2522%25E9%25A1%25B9%25E7%259B%25AE%25E6%25A6%2582%25E5%2586%25B5%25E4%25B8%258E%2522%2B%2522yjx%2522%26oq%3D%2522%25E4%25BC%25BD%25E5%25B8%2588%25E5%258E%25BF%25E5%25B7%25A5%25E4%25B8%259A%25E5%259B%25AD%25E5%258C%25BA%2522%2B%2522%25E9%25A1%25B9%25E7%259B%25AE%25E6%25A6%2582%25E5%2586%25B5%25E4%25B8%258E%2522%2B%2522yjx%2522%26gs_l%3Dpsy-ab.3...148695.156350.0.156499.12.12.0.0.0.0.403.2065.2-5j1j1.7.0..2..0...1.1.64.psy-ab..5.5.1506...33i160k1.0.dIThY43_Ryo&sa=D&ust=1536881722348000&usg=AFQjCNHTxb4Sx0ufq93cIRo9bYxRPgbggg

More of anything! If more recent satellite imagery becomes available, check the buildings at the South of the block to see if they are also part of the facility (looks likely cant confirm yet)

Considerrable construction occurring to the South of the camp. First-hand sources referred to seven-buildings in this camp being used to house detainees. Since this, an additional nine identical buildings have been constructed.

Built in an industrial park. Satellite images show clear and multi-story buildings being constructed in much of the open area. Need to wait for new high-resolution images, but these appear to be factories for detainees to work at.